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How Siebel CRM Renders Siebel Open UI Clients

Siebel CRM does the following to render a Siebel Open UI client:

• Uses HTML div elements and HTML tables in SWE templates to determine physical layout instead of the HTML frames that high interactivity uses. Siebel Open UI does not use div elements to structure a page. The entire page hierarchy that Siebel Open UI uses is a hierarchy of div elements. Siebel Open UI does not use the HTML frame.
• Uses cascading style sheets (CSS) to specify position, dimension, and styling for HTML elements, such as font color and font type, instead of the HTML code that high interactivity uses. This styling does not apply to the objects that an ActiveX control renders in a high-interactivity client, such as a list applet.

This configuration is more closely aligned with current guidelines for Web design than the configuration that high interactivity uses. Siebel Open UI allows you to customize how Siebel CRM renders individual objects in the client without having to use Siebel Tools, and it allows you use an alternative configuration, such as your custom configuration or a third-party configuration, to bind the Siebel business layer to user interface objects. Siebel Open UI allows you to customize an existing ODH or create a new ODH.